“The quest for self-discovery is the desire to know thy soul.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“I wonder if you know thy soul?”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“She had been struck by the figure of a woman’s back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure wore was the color called ashes of roses, and Ada stood, held in place by a sharp stitch of envy or th woman’s dress and the fine shape of her back and her thick dark hair and the sense of assurance she seemed to evidence in her very posture.Then Ada took a step forward, and the other woman did too, and Ada realized that it was herself she was admiring, the mirror having caught the reflection of an opposite mirror on the wall behind her. The light of the lamps and the tint of the mirrors had conspired to shift colors, bleaching mauve to rose. She climbed the steps to her room and prepared for bed, but she slept poorly that night, for the music went on until dawn. As she lay awake she thought how odd it had felt to win her own endorsement.”
— Charles Frazier
“Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. ” ~ Roy Hale”
— Roy Hale
“Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart’s state.”
— Hamza Yusuf
“Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society’s for your best possible future.”
— Deepak Burfiwala
“History, writing, infect after a time a man’s sense of himself…”
— A.S. Byatt
“The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it’s about yourself. If you don’t want to know the truth, you’ll do anything to disguise it.”
— Sara Pennypacker